Scholarship Athletes are Employees

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'I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.'" Ronald Reagan

I do not think college athletes should be paid salaries. I do think they should get the equivalent of workers' comp if badly injured, should own the rights to their names and images once they leave the school and should retain whatever scholarships they received if they leave the team "under conditions other than dishonorable" as the military phrases it.

I also think that football and basketball college sports are the equivalent of baseball's minor league system and that it is naive to assume that the money they bring in is spent largely on academic improvement.

I do not think college athletes should be paid salaries. I do think they should get the equivalent of workers' comp if badly injured, should own the rights to their names and images once they leave the school and should retain whatever scholarships they received if they leave the team "under conditions other than dishonorable" as the military phrases it.

I also think that football and basketball college sports are the equivalent of baseball's minor league system and that it is naive to assume that the money they bring in is spent largely on academic improvement.

Comic? Could you please explain fungibility?

I think I noted early on that I had little issue with things surrounding medical care. And of course, I don't think a kid should lose his scholarship because his knee got destroyed by a 300 lb. DL.

'I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.'" Ronald Reagan